Monrovia Airport
The other day when I went to Michael's on Huntington Drive I spotted the tile mural on the front of Albertsons depicting the former Monrovia Airport. I looked it up on the web and found a website devoted to little known airports. According to the site, "A 1947 article in Flying Magazine described Monrovia Airport as having 'a 2,600' gravel runway, a snack bar, and 50 planes which are tied down for the fairly standard rate of $15.' As seen in the above photos, Monrovia Airport also had at least four hangars." I believe the Monrovia's airport ran from 1928 to 1953, and was known as "the Foothill Flying Field." Nice! The site of Monrovia Airport is bounded by Cypress Road on the north, Shamrock on the west, Sawpit Wash on the east, and Duarte Road on the south. Another tidbit on the site, which I can't say is something be be proud of, is that the very first ever McDonald's restaurant that opened (anywhere) was on Huntington Drive. The year was 1937. Eeeeek!
posted by aw
3 Comments:
That is so cool. Here is the current Google Map of the area. Pretty much built over now.
A whole lot of aviation history was written around the area. It's nice to know Monrovia had its part.
1:00 AM
I would love to be able to step back in time and hang out at the hot dog stand, or whever the pilots took a break, and watch the planes come and go.
11:43 AM
According to some info that used to hang on the wall at the McDiner pictured in my post a few days ago, the McDonald brothers ran the concession stand at the Monrovia airport, which was indeed right off Huntington Blvd.
11:50 PM
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